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We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial…

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Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower…
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil…
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary.…
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household…
The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of…
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately…
The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide…
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain…
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America,…

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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward. — Mencius
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. — Henry David Thoreau
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside… — Edith Wharton
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with… — Marianne Williamson
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes… — John Dryden
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding
The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it… — Richey Edwards

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